1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 7
  3. CHAPTER 33
  4. Part 21
  5. 7-33-2127 Withdrawal by owner of individual tract adjacent to municipality

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 33. FIRE PROTECTION

Part 21. Rural Fire Districts

Withdrawal By Owner Of Individual Tract Adjacent To Municipality

7-33-2127. Withdrawal by owner of individual tract adjacent to municipality. In lieu of the detraction procedure provided in 7-33-2142 and 7-33-2143, whenever a person owns land adjacent to a city or town and wishes to have only that land annexed to the city or town, the land may be detracted as follows:

(1) The owner shall mail notice to the presiding officer of the trustees of the fire district or, if there are no trustees, to the board of county commissioners of the owner's intention to request annexation.

(2) The owner shall attach a copy of this notice of intention to the petition to the municipal governing body requesting annexation.

(3) Following adoption of the annexation order under 7-2-4714, the land is detracted from the fire district.

History: En. Sec. 3237, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2081, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 16, L. 1915; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 16, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5148, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 15, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 5148, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 118, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 97, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 75, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 75, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 48, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 77, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 49, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 45, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 81, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 11-2008(5); amd. Sec. 723, Ch. 61, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 499, L. 2007.